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Famous Ships

Enter the correct answer for each. Not using ship prefixes will still mark the question correct.
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Last updated: February 14, 2026
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First submittedFebruary 14, 2026
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Biblical ship that held two of every animal
Noah’s Ark
Ship used by Jason of Greek myth
Argo
Columbus ship that became La Navidad
Santa Maria
Rodrigo de Triana spotted the New World aboard this ship
Pinta
Columbus ship that was a play on the owner’s name
Nina
First ship to successfully circumnavigate the world
Victoria
Francis Drake’s ship in the second circumnavigation of the world
Golden Hind
Henry Hudson’s ship that sailed into New York Harbor
Halve Maen
Ship that brought the Pilgrims to the New World
Mayflower
Ship that was supposed to accompany the Pilgrims, but was unseaworthy
Speedwell
Legendary ghost ship that’s doomed to sailed the seas forever
Flying Dutchman
Swedish warship who sunk on her maiden voyage and has a museum named after it
Vasa
A French slave ship was renamed to this after being captured by Blackbeard
Queen Anne’s Revenge
Most famous ship commanded by James Cook
HMS Endeavour
Fletcher Christian led a mutiny against William Bligh aboard this ship
HMS Bounty
War of 1812 hero ship nicknamed “Old Ironsides”
USS Constitution
Ship it captured to garner that nickname
HMS Gurriere
Horatio Nelson’s favorite ship, also a Greek king
HMS Agamemnom
Horatio Nelson commanded ship on which he died aboard at Trafalgar
HMS Victory
Ship on which Charles Darwin wrote his discoveries
HMS Beagle
Famous Union ironclad that fought in the Battle of Hampton Roads
USS Monitor
Confederate ironclad the above fought against
CSS Virginia
Scuttled ship’s remains the above ship was built on
USS Merrimack
Deserted ship found off the coast of the Azores in 1872
Mary Celeste
Ship whose explosion of the coast of Cuba was believed to have been caused by Spain
USS Maine
Roald Amundsen ship used to successfully navigate the Northwest Passage
Gjøa
Amundsen ship that voyaged to Antarctica
Fram
Amundsen boat used on a failed expedition through the Northeast Passage
Maud
Ship that struck an iceberg in 1912
RMS Titanic
The above’s sister ship that had a long career
RMS Olympic
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Other sister ship sunk during World War I
HMHS Brittanic
Once the world’s largest ship, she was sunk by a German U-boat
RMS Lusitania
Revolutionary ship whose design led to a new class; also the only ship confirmed to have sunk a submarine
HMS Dreadnought
Group of ships that arrived in Japan in 1854, known for their color
Black Ships
Ernest Shackleton ship that sunk in the Antarctic
Endurance
Life boat used by Shackleton in a grueling mission to reach rescue
James Caird
World War II ship destroyed by the British after relentless pursuit
German battleship Bismarck
Name of the ship destroyed by the above ship
HMS Hood
Ship whose remains are a memorial in the waters of Pearl Harbor
USS Arizona
Either of the other ships sunk during the Attack on Pearl Harbor
USS Oklahoma
Most powerful ship ever comstructed, sunk in 1945
Yamato
The above’s sisters ship; her wreck was discovered by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen in 2015
Musashi
Most decorated U.S. ship of World War II
USS Enterprise
Ship that transported uranium for “Little Boy”
USS Indianapolis
Site of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender
USS Missouri
First nuclear powered ship in history
USS Nautilus
Italian sunken ship whose crew members quick thinking led to only 46 lives lost
SS Andrea Doria
Ship whose crew lied about being attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin Incident
USS Maddox
Research ship used as a mobile lab by Jacques Costeau
RV Calypso
Gordon Lightfoot sang about this freighter which sunk in Lake Superior
SS Edmund Fitzgerald
Greenpeace ship sunk by the French in an act of terrorism at the Port of Auckland
Rainbow Warrior
Oil supertanker that caused a environmental disaster in Prince William Sound
Exxon Valdez
Royal Carribean cruise who set the record for largest passenger ship ever in 1999
Voyager of the Seas
Ship attacked by Al-Qaeda in a 2000 suicide bombing
USS Cole
Retired British liner who is now a floating hotel in Dubai
Queen Elizabeth 2
Italian ship that hit a rock in 2012 and sunk
Costa Concordia
South Korean ship that capsized with hundreds of high schoolers on board
MW Sewol
Ship that blocked the Suez Canal
Ever Given
Ship that collided into the Francis Scott Key Bridge
Dali
Current largest cruise ship in the world
Icon of the Seas
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1 Comments
Calijnaar
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Level 67
Feb 15, 2026
Okay, this is ridiculous. Why are you somethimes accepting ship names without things like USS or HMS in front, and sometimes not. Neither Olympic, nor Britannic or Andrea Doria were accepted...
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